Application Platform Architect

Platform & Application Architecture

• Define the overarching architecture, standards, patterns, and best practices for application and platform development.
• Architect end to end solutions using React/Remix/NodeJS, Python (FastAPI, Flask), GraphQL, and microservices.
• Design scalable containerized and cloud native solutions using Docker/Podman and Kubernetes.
• Establish architectural blueprints, reference architectures, and reusable frameworks.

Technical Leadership

• Guide engineering teams through complex solution design decisions, ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture.
• Conduct deep architecture reviews of applications, microservices, APIs, and data flows.
• Provide mentorship to developers, senior engineers, and application teams.

Platform Engineering

• Architect, optimize, and evolve the internal application platform to support: UI frameworks, API gateways, Microservice orchestration, Observability and logging frameworks, CI/CD pipelines
• Ensure the platform supports high performance, multi tenancy, and scalability.

Data & Integration Architecture

• Architect solutions that manage structured/unstructured data leveraging PostgreSQL, RDBMS concepts, and distributed data tools (e.g., Hadoop).
• Define API, integration, and GraphQL schemas ensuring consistency and maintainability.
• Work closely with data engineering teams to ensure metadata, lineage, and quality are integrated into platform services.

Application Modernization

• Analyze existing applications and platforms to identify modernization opportunities.
• Lead refactoring, migration to microservices, and cloud native transformations.
• Establish principles for reusability, modularity, and standardized components.

DevOps, Automation & Infrastructure

• Define and evolve platform CI/CD standards using Git based workflows.
• Collaborate with Infra teams on automation using Ansible, Shell scripting, and container orchestration patterns.
• Ensure platform security, reliability, performance tuning, and governance compliance.

Collaboration & Strategy

• Partner with product owners to translate business requirements into technology roadmaps.
• Provide architectural input on major initiatives, platform investments, and technical debt reduction.
• Engage with cross functional teams to ensure solution alignment across the organization.

Technical Expertise

• Deep hands-on expertise in full stack engineering
• Frontend: React, Remix, NodeJS
• Backend: Python, FastAPI, Flask
• APIs: GraphQL, REST
• Strong experience designing and delivering microservices architectures
• Mastery in containers and orchestration: Docker, Podman, Kubernetes
• Solid understanding of Linux environments.
• Strong data and DB architecture experience: PostgreSQL, RDBMS fundamentals
• Distributed data concepts (Hadoop)

Architectural Skills

• Experience designing large scale distributed systems
• Expertise in cloud native patterns, event driven systems, and service mesh (plus)
• Ability to create architecture diagrams, roadmaps, and technical documentation
• Strong knowledge of engineering best practices: testing strategies, coding standards, security controls

Leadership & Soft Skills

• Ability to lead engineering teams through architectural and design decisions
• Strong communication skills to articulate complex concepts to both technical and non-technical partners
• Ability to influence stakeholders across product, engineering, infra, and security
• Proven track record of driving architectural transformation across the SDLC

Basic Qualifications:

• 7+ years of experience in application development and platform engineering
• 5+ years in an architect or principal engineer role
• Experience with platform-as-a-product mindset
• Knowledge of cloud concepts (AWS/Google Cloud Platform/Azure)
• Experience establishing enterprise architectural governance
• Role requires onsite client work 60% (3 days per week) in Jacksonville, FL
• High School Diploma or GED

Preferred Qualifications:

• Associate or bachelor's degree

Compensation at Accenture varies depending on a wide array of factors, which may include but are not limited to the specific office location, role, skill set, and level of experience. As required by local law, Accenture provides a reasonable range of compensation for roles that may be hired as set forth below. We anticipate this job posting will be posted until 4/31/2026.

Accenture Flex offers a market competitive suite of benefits including medical, dental, vision, and long-term disability coverage, a 401(k) plan, and paid time off. See more information on our benefits here:

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